I Am Very Grateful for Christian Science and for the many healings I have experienced during my life. Although our family of eight experienced countless Christian Science healings when I was growing up, when I was in my early twenties there was a period of five years when I was not practicing this scientific truth. My experiences during that time were filled with fear, deep depression, turmoil, unfulfilled searching for "Mr. Right," many medical problems, and occasional substance abuse. But even during these years, the spiritual facts that I had been taught in my growing years by my parents and in the Christian Science Sunday School kept creeping into my mind more and more every day, displacing the discord in my life until one day all of the awful, heartwrenching things no longer had a place in my experience. They were replaced with much love, wonderful relationships, deep-felt happiness, and an end to a ten-year addiction to tobacco. By the summer of 1988, I felt I could truly say that my life was completely reunited with this scientific truth of being.
Years of living chained to fear were suddenly released.
From the age of one, my daughter experienced strong allergic reactions to any insect that bit her. As I was not practicing Christian Science healing at the time, she was under the care of a very loving and dedicated pediatrician, who for several years prescribed medication to relieve the allergic reaction. One of the insects she was particularly sensitive to was bees. The summer before we moved to the East Coast, the physician prescribed a kit that would need to be kept handy at all times, as she would need immediate attention if she were stung. I became more and more protective of her.
